The end is in site which really saddens me as I have had a blast and learned a ton about horses, cattle and roping.
Well we started the day with roping and even got a lesson on knot tying as the end of one of Bob's ropes broke off. There is a special knot that keeps the honda (the ring through which the rope slips - just in case you are a tenderfoot) from slipping off and creating your loop. As you can see we are all enthralled with the knot. Bob had a name for this knot but I'll be a winged pig if I can remember what it is.
Blackie was back in town for an return engagement. He is one troubled horse. He just wants to stay very, very close to you and he has no energy... that is until you get a rope on one of his hind legs and then look out. After working both hind legs and doing some other ground work, he loosened up enough that he could be ridden (carefully that is). Once he got in this state, he really moved nicely.
Next we got to play with the "fat" cows... First we had to "cut" one out of the herd, drive them down the arena between 2 barrels, over a log, down a long chute and finally through 2 barrels placed so close together the steers had to lift their head to get their horns through. As you con see in the first picture, this steer almost got away but he finally did his thing. The next time 2 people took 2 steers through the same course which requires lots of team-work.
Temperature = 75 (very nice!)
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